Construction, engineering and defense contractor Day and Zimmermann, based in Philadelphia, said Monday it had been awarded a six-year alliance contract by Southern Nuclear to provide fleet maintenance and modification services at the company’s six nuclear reactors at three different locations.
The contract covers maintenance and other services for the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (Unit 1 and Unit 2) near Waynesboro, Ga., the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga., and the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Al.
The company also announced the award of a three-year staff augmentation contract to provide Southern Nuclear with Radiation Protection and Decontamination services “fleetwide.”
Day and Zimmermann said, mobilization and transition is underway for a July 2015 start work date for Southern Nuclear’s fleet. “We anticipate a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with Day & Zimmermann that will strategically position us for years of continued safe, reliable, and cost-effective energy production,” said Dennis Madison, Vice President of Fleet Operations for Southern Nuclear in a statement.
“D&Z is one of the nation’s leading providers of total plant life-cycle solutions for the power, process and industrial markets and has been consistently been ranked as the No. 1 operations and maintenance contractor in the United States power industry by Engineering News-Record in its Top 400 Contractors Sourcebook,” the statement said.
Day & Zimmermann is a century-old, family-owned company whose 23,000 employees specialize in construction & engineering, staffing and defense solutions for leading corporations and governments around the world. Operating from more than 150 worldwide locations with 2.5 Billion USD in revenue, Day & Zimmermann is currently ranked as one of the largest private companies in the U.S. by Forbes. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, the company’s first work was to develop "Betterment Reports" that helped modernize American factories. “Today, we are still in the business of betterment,” D&Z said.